Truck.



10.845,966.V PATENTED MAR. 5, 1907.

J. Hr M0BR1s. I y' .APPLICATION FILED JA 6.

UNIIHn srAIHs PATHNT OHHIOH. JOHN H. Morini-sbr MAQUIJIIETA, IowA.

TRUCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 1,0, 1906. Serial No1 295,499.

No. 845,966. Patented March 5, 190'7.

To all YL11/com t may cm1/067%.' f cross-diameter than the like diameter of the Be it known that I, JOHN H. MORRIS, a 1 frame, so that an Object supported by the citizen of the United States, residing at Mal former will not contact with the latter. The quoketa, in the countyof Jackson and State l frame and rollers may be made of any deof Iowa, have invented a new and useful l sired length, their dimensions being deter- Truck, of which the following is a speciiicai mined by the use to which the article is to tion. be put.

This invention relates to trucks. In using the trucksay in moving a barrel The object of the invention is to provide a l of sugar from beneath a counter-the truck novel and simple form of truck which shall is first placed under Athe counter and the be particularly adapted for handling heavy l barrel of sugar placed thereon. A slight freight, loading and unloading cars and drays, draft or pull upon the barrel will move it moving heavy stuii about depots, for moving from beneath the counter, and by the time sugar-barrels and other heavy stuff kept about one-half of it has been moved outward under the counters of a grocery store, and l the barrel will pass from one of the rollers for other uses too numerous to mention. l and rest upon the iioor, thereby giving the With the above and other objects in view, l proper inclination to the barrel to facilitate as will appear as the nature of the invention the removal of its contents. is better understood, the same consists in the ward thrust being applied to the barrel it novel construction of truck hereinafter fully will ride upon the roller which it left, and the described and claimed. truck and barrel will then be returned to In the accompanying drawings, forming a their original position. part of this specication, and in which like Owing to the simplicity of the construction characters of reference indicate correspondof the device and the readiness with which it ing parts, Figure l is a view in perspective of may be applied to use it will in a ready and a truck construcetd in accordance with the practical manner secure the objects sought. present invention. Fig. 2 is a view in trans- I claimverse section. A truck comprising a central bar having The truck embodies a frame l and a pair of each end divided longitudinally to form terrollers 2. The frame is by preference con* minaldiverging arms, the outer ends of which structed of a single piece of iron having terare bent at right angles to the axis of the bar minal arms to form eyes, and rollers disposed at opposite body member of the frame and are then desides of the bar and provided with terminal iected at right angles thereto to present roller-bearings 4. As shown in Fig. l, the terminals 5 of the bearings 4 are enlarged and are reduced to receive pintles or shafts 6, that are carried by the rollers, which latter are Lpreferably of hard wood, although they may e made of any other suitable material; shown in Fig. 2, the rollers are of greater l pintles rotatably mounted in said eyes.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto amxed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

3 that diverge from the main] l l JOHN H. MORRIS.

Witnesses:

ADAM RINGLEP,

CHAs. RINGLEP.

Upon an n- 

